“He'd say most kids were made of sugar and spice, but his Kylee was made of pancakes.”

“When Lisa awoke she was back in the cell on the floor covered in her own blood, dirt, and urine. And that was only day 1.”

“Another big mistake you women make, never underestimate the cunning of a killer”

“Lisa, I do love a girl with fight in her, it makes it so much more fun.' Then he punched her in the face causing her to black out.”

“And the thing about falling in love is that no matter where you are when it happens, you can't help but to color those moments with beauty, even if you're in a location of ugliness. He made what would have been a place of nightmares into a place to dream.”

“But in the end, there will still be a morning like this one, full of new light, and a distant voice will be heard, like a memory of before we became people. And the tones of a song will well up, the gentle lull of the first mother. This song, yes indeed, will be ours, the memory of a deep root that they were unable to wrench out of us. This voice will give us the strength for a new beginning, and upon hearing it, the corpses will find peace in their graves and the survivors will embrace life with the simple joy of young lovers. All this will happen if we are able to rid ourselves of this time that has made animals out of us. Let us strive to die like the people we no longer are.”

“The faces of the panel listening were the very embodiment of skepticism made flesh.”